Democracy at crossroads in the heartlands

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Subsequently, on Wednesday, 5th February, the senate acquitted Trump of both charges that he had been impeached for by the house of Representatives.

, controlled by Trump’s Republican Party, voted that no witnesses or additional documents were needed for President Trump’s his trial by that body following his impeachment by the US House of Representative, controlled by Democrats.

In the US African Americans and indigenous Americans were excluded, the former as slaves and when that ended numerous restrictions, particularly in the south, were applied to prevent African Americans from fully participating in the democratic process until well into the 20th century. And even now efforts, mostly by Republican-controlled state governments on restrictive voter rolls, effectively disenfranchise African Americans and other ethnic minorities in the US.

The Brexit supporting Wales was less than that thin UK-wide vote and, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain, by a significant majority in the former. This indeed is one of the negative repercussions of Brexit. The Scottish Nationalist Party , which runs a devolved parliament and increased its majority in that body the last general election significantly, strongly believes that Scotland has been taken out of the EU by the UK government against the wish of Scotland.

In the US Donald Trump’s acquittal by the Republican-controlled Senate is a travesty of justice because a mountain of evidence was provided that the president had abused his powers to pressure the Ukrainians to go after his potential rival and he prevented officials from cooperating with the investigation.

 

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